Ezekiel 14:9-19 MSG

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"'If a prophet is deceived and tells these idolaters the lies they want to hear, I, God, get blamed for those lies. He won't get by with it. I'll grab him by the scruff of the neck and get him out of there.

10
They'll be equally guilty, the prophet and the one who goes to the prophet,

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so that the house of Israel will never again wander off my paths and make themselves filthy in their rebellions, but will rather be my people, just as I am their God. Decree of God, the Master.'"

12
God's Message came to me:

13
"Son of man, when a country sins against me by living faithlessly and I reach out and destroy its food supply by bringing on a famine, wiping out humans and animals alike,

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even if Noah, Daniel, and Job - the Big Three - were alive at the time, it wouldn't do the population any good. Their righteousness would only save their own lives." Decree of God, the Master.

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"Or, if I make wild animals go through the country so that everyone has to leave and the country becomes wilderness and no one dares enter it anymore because of the wild animals,

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even if these three men were living there, as sure as I am the living God, neither their sons nor daughters would be rescued, but only those three, and the country would revert to wilderness.

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"Or, if I bring war on that country and give the order, 'Let the killing begin!' leaving both people and animals dead,

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even if those three men were alive at the time, as sure as I am the living God, neither sons nor daughters would be rescued, but only these three.

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"Or, if I visit a deadly disease on that country, pouring out my lethal anger, killing both people and animals,

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